UNIT PLANS (Right now there is an IB unit plan and another named LangATalkUnit1. These should be merged in the future. The second half of the unit needs scheduling and grade-level differention--SL, 8/30/2011
(Albatross video was too large to upload. You can find it on Forms and Files in the Language A folder. Note: THE VIDEO PLAYS BETTER ON A MAC THAN ON THE PC TABLET.)
This was NOT the touchstone journal article that we read and discussed together. Christine, do you have that article as a pdf (Making the Most of Talk)?
The December 2011 journal, Voices From the Middle (publication of the National Council of Teachers of English), focused on "Talk." Both articles came from that issue.
The December 2011 journal, Voices From the Middle (publication of the National Council of Teachers of English), focused on "Talk." Both articles came from that issue.
Texts from the "Talking Service" document from The Great Books Foundation--If a link doesn't work, can you fix it (Google search, paste here, test)?
A Bed for the Night
A gift of love
http://books.google.com/books?id=qnoc3JhV5iUC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=a+gift+of+love+martin+l+king&source=bl&ots=qn6yFJhbip&sig=5IlCOVRqHbM64xh6qMUEBIkgIbA&hl=en&ei=Qnn6TaiXMc_YiAL1k-GCBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Theme for English B
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/English_B.html
Earliest impressions ( link to the whole text) http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Addams/2hh1.html
Reveries of the solitary walker (whole text) http://www.generation-online.org/p/fprousseau.htm